Rep. Mike Gottlieb

Assistant state attorneys and public defenders with between four and nine years on the job could qualify for $3,000 to $5,000 in annual student loan assistance under bills introduced in the Florida House and Senate.

HB 147, filed by Rep. Mike Gottlieb, D-Sunrise, and SB 1472, by Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Miami, would set up a program in the Department of Education that would provide $3,000 a year to repay loans for assistant public defenders and state attorneys in their fourth, fifth, and sixth years of service.